Experts put the disparity down to some women dating each other – with research suggesting bisexual women make up a large share of the young-adult queer community – as well as many also dating older men.

Don’t make me the bad guy. Say it. Say the real reason why this is possible.

I’m sick of pretending it isn’t.

I am doing half of the work here. Someone please write the anti western traditionalism conclusion for me please.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dating_advice/comments/tnfpjw/im_a_straight_female_but_i_find_95_of_men/

I’m a straight female but for some reason I find almost all men unattractive

Yes I have explored my sexuality before and determined that I’m straight. I find almost all women beautiful and attractive, but I’m not into them sexually or romantically. I find women sexy but it doesn’t do anything for me. I only want sex and romance from men. But I find almost all men unattractive.

It’s extremely rare that I find a man attractive. On Tinder I literally swipe No on every single man until I run out of people in my area. When I go out to a bar or club I never see any men that are attractive to me.

And it’s not because I think I’m too good for them or anything. I myself am probably a 7/10 which I’m fine with. But for some reason I can only go after men I think are a 10/10 in my eyes. And I’m not talking about men who are muscular, tall, rich etc. That’s not my type at all and I don’t care about those things. I’m just talking about my personal taste.

When it comes to physical attraction only, I look at the face and nothing else. I don’t care about their height, weight etc. But even men that are considered conventionally attractive I just don’t at all. I honestly just find lost men ugly, even if there’s just one little feature out of place.

I have only dated men in my life. When I do find a man attractive I’m very into them. All the men I’ve dated I was 100% into. I also get along with men and have had many guy friends. But I turn down every man that hits on me or wants to date me. I just want nothing to do with them

Even though many men have a great personality, I just can not be with someone I’m not attracted to. So I feel like I’ll never find anyone because the first step in any relationship is physical attraction and then going from there, bur it’s extremely rare that I find any of them attractive at all

I don’t know if there’s a way to expand my standards when it comes to physical attraction alone because it’s not something anyone can help. I just don’t know what to do

Rogersays:
March 2, 2023 at 9:48 am
Government discussion paper recommends Australia Post should no longer deliver letters regularly as it is too expensive.

Should save the country quite a bit.

Six sitting weeks a year for the full Parliament, another 12 weeks for committee business.

Then spend the rest if the time in their electorates, meeting with actual voters, and listening to them.

She’s attracted to men who look like women? Is that it?

Weirdo.

Why, oh why am I immediately reminded on The Crying Game?

French Health Authority Recommends AGAINST COVID-19 Vaccines for Healthy Population

Their ABC approving of Chalmers’ super savings, finds an Expert to tell us that non-indexation of the $3 million cap is a nothingburger:

Alex Dunnin from Rainmaker Group has crunched the numbers on which young people now might be affected by retirement age if the $3 million threshold never changes.

At age 25, he says you would have to be earning $200,000 a year, to have $3 million in super by age 67 (under the assumption your super contributions are 12 per cent per year, earnings were 5 per cent per year for the next 42 years and you pay 1 per cent in fees).

Or you would have to have exceptional returns every year, which is unlikely.

“Long story short, to hit the $3m cap, you either have to start by earning four-times the typical salary and keep earning at that rate for the next 42 years, or you’d need to earn double the long-term average investment performance each and every year for 42 years,” he explained.

A quick glance at Alex Dunnin’s analysis shows he is living in No Inflation World.

If you inflate the $200,000 wage at an average of (say 3% pa) he would be on $650,000 pa at retirement – with a super balance of around $4.5 million under Alex’s assumptions.

If you also adjust the (fairly meagre) average 5%pa super earning assumption for inflation (say to 8%pa), old mate will retire with $9 million in the kick.

So, scaling all that back to estimate the wage level caught in Chalmers’ Web, someone currently on $70,000 aged 25 will be retiring with a $3 million super balance. Hello almost everyone working outside of the service economy.

No Treasury magic. It’s just the power of compounding across long time periods.

[Pro Tip: If you are using Rainmaker Information for your SMSF, probably don’t.]

– That vaccine mandates would increase vaccination rates. A George Mason University study shows that it didn’t. It did one thing, it created “Never-Vaxxers” who are now not getting the childhood vaccines they need to get.

This was one of my main arguments against the mandates, that this would happen. Now the public ‘Elf boffoons can reap what they have sown.

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/employee-earnings/latest-release

75% of all employees earned less than $1,900 (75th percentile)

$70,000 currently puts you in the top quartile of earnings in Australia.

monty, what is 52 x $1,900?

Gaborsays:
March 2, 2023 at 10:12 am
feelthebern says:
March 2, 2023 at 6:45 am

Interesting, read.
And I couldn’t find an ‘anti-semitic’ word in it.

m0nty=fa is triggered by the family name.

Novel peanut allergy treatment shown to be safe, effective and lasting

Once again, my former industry never asks *why* the incidence of food allergies has gone up – it just focusses on remedies.

One possible explanation is the rise in the number of ‘vaccines’ given to children. These vaccines contain ‘adjuvants’ which make the immune system sit up and take notice of the injected antigen (without adjuvants, your body tends to regard a dead protein injection as no more dangerous than a splinter, and simply eliminates it, without treating it as an infective agent worth raising an immune response to).

It is known that vaccines permanently shift the state of the immune system towards a higher level of chronic activity (thats the point – vaccines are immune stimulants and their effects are longlasting if not permanent) This likely explains the explosion in chronic illnesses in children (eg asthma, eczema, sinus problems, food allergy and even autism – which are all immune mediated) and it has been shown that these ‘adjuvants’ can also make your immune system ‘sit up and take notice’ of other antigens they see at the same time – eg peanut proteins.

The more I read, the more I conclude that even if (and its a big if) the childhood vaxxes give protection against the acute illness they are targeted at, they *also* up regulate the immune system, producing a suite of other diseases as well.

I will concede you lot a couple of criticisms as being valid.

Yes, the lack of indexation does mean that Chalmers has found a way to introduce bracket creep to superannuation. This is an underappreciated but important aspect of the change.

Yes, the focus on the current 0.5% of people who would be affected by this change is kind of disingenuous. A more accurate focus would be on whatever percentage of current working adults would hit the cap before retirement age.

Chalmers is benefiting from a severe lack of sophistication in media analysis. However, even if the debate had a higher IQ, he would still win it because the bracket creep is extremely slow as the $3M target is going to be unachievable for all but the very rich for decades.

Monty,

$375k in today’s dollars is $3M in 2050 dollars assuming 7% inflation.

Happy that everyone on $375k super today is just fine and dandy?

Re demons in AI, a rational approach would suggest that developers write code that gives personal chats a level of authenticity.

Thats not how it works. AI mimics neuronal processing algorithms, they are content independent. The same algorithm can process sight, sound, taste and meta data to create a latent space of conceptual interrelationships.

That these sometimes produce extremely weird results simply suggests that no human agency is in oversight of the output, it is just mangled garbage, as misplaced or malfuctioning bits of code lead to places they shouldn’t. You don’t have to see it as demonic although if you believe in demons there’s no reason why it couldn’t be so.

What the demons in AI show is that in the latent space of conceptual relationships there is nothing built in that defines, sane, rational, insane, mad, right or wrong. These concepts are just different areas of the latent space which need to be trained just as the rest of the AI.

People have been exploring the latent space of imagine generators like midjourney and there is some pretty dark stuff lurking in the space. why? simply because its possible. The latent space is not limited to its training data. The training data are just provide points in a hugely dimensional latent space of conceptual interrelations and it would seem to be infinitely scalable. The more data and processing we throw at it the more human like it becomes, to the point where it will far exceed human capability.

AI interpolates between the points in the latent space to provide novelty and creativity. You can ask midjourney to slowly morph a cat into a dog and it can do so in a fully realistic manner, even though it has never seen anything that is both cat like and dog like at the same time.

Instead we saw lockstep bad decisions across the board

Oneness in Shitness, no where left to run.

Super cap freeze will trap younger workers

Phillip Coorey – Political editor

Younger workers will be relatively worse off at retirement due to the government’s refusal to index its proposed $3 million superannuation cap, but Jim Chalmers says that will be a problem for future treasurers.

As the government dealt with the fallout from its decision to impose a 30 per cent tax on earnings from funds worth more than $3 million, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton confirmed the electoral battle ahead by vowing the Coalition would repeal the measure if elected.

“Unfortunately, it will be harder to have the conversation about super next time because confidence in the stability of super is eroded every time we reopen the conversation,” she said.

Businessman Tony Shepherd lamented “we are entering a period where all the money belongs to the government and what they let us retain is a concession”.

“A legitimate loss on a property investment is not a scam or a concession. It is a calculated risk on a property investment which may or may not work out in the longer term,” he said.

“If we continue down this route we will inevitably end up where the socialists in Treasury would like to land, that is a tax on gross turnover rather than a tax on net profit.”

“If she’s not attracted to the Hemsworth lads then %$#& knows what in the hell she wants.”
Dot,
while the Hemsworth boys are cute, if we’re talking actors I find attractive, David James Elliot is more my style. He is also aging naturally instead of being yanked and kranked.
If we’re going old school actors then it is very hard to go past Cary Grant or, if you like them blonde, Michael Caine. hummana hummana!

“If we continue down this route we will inevitably end up where the socialists in Treasury would like to land, that is a tax on gross turnover rather than a tax on net profit.”

Treasury reveals ‘terrible’ plan to tax super funds’ unrealised profit

Hannah Wootton – Reporter

Financial advisers have slammed an unexpected move from the government to tax unrealised gains and losses in superannuation funds, warning there would be “massive pushback” on the proposal.

“I think in the fullness of time we’d understand more, and we can think through strategies to make the best of the change, which may still involve money in superannuation.”

The Grattan Institute estimated that within 30 years, about one-in-10 workers – those earning above $142,000 a year on average throughout their careers – will begin to retire with nominal super balances of around $3 million.

Analysis by the Financial Services Council said that without indexation, for a worker currently aged 25 and planning to retire at 65, the value of the $3 million cap in today’s dollars would be $1.1 million.

For a 40-year-old planning to retire in 25 years time, the value of the $3 million cap would be $1.62 million.

Both are below the current threshold of $1.7 million under which all superannuation earnings in pension mode are tax-free. Earnings still in accumulation mode are taxed a 15 per cent and, under the government’s proposal, will be taxed at 30 per cent for balances over $3 million.

That’s more like it.

So per Grattan the top 10% of workers will start getting their super contributions taxed at 30% instead of 15%… after they already have $3M in the kick. Big whoops. I’m sure they’ll cry into the dashboards of their Beemers on the way back from their holiday homes.

Show me a 25-year-old who has a current super nestegg of $1.1M and I will show you a merchant banker’s trust fund kid.

If the facts are presented correctly, Chalmers wins this debate hands down.

m0ntysays:
March 2, 2023 at 11:24 am
Monty,

Inflation will not stay at 7% for the next 27 years, duncan. Try some normal assumptions.

Are “normal” assumptions the same as Treasury assumptions? The same Treasury which has regularly and consistently demonstrated its willingness to fudge assumptions to get a desired result?

Seems the Vic Gov has deregistered 243 electric cars for not reporting their km for the year. I imagine it could be quite a shock to get a bill for how far you’ve travelled on top of the charging fees.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/02/28/243-aussie-evs-deregistered-for-not-paying-their-road-users-tax/

Treasury announced on Tuesday that it would include “all notional gains and losses” in its calculation of earnings under the Albanese government’s controversial plan to crack down on generous superannuation tax concessions.

But taxing unrealised profits – in the formula proposed by Treasury for calculating super funds’ tax rates, earnings would be calculated as the annual difference in the fund’s value each financial year – was at odds with the broader tax system, experts warned.

And, just like that, all of m0nty=fa’s pathetic attempts to defend Dim Jim’s superannuation changes were shown up to be, not even Liars propaganda, but Treasury propaganda.

Logical, since Treasury would have written the Talking Points.

South Africa is in freefall

March 1, 2023

Its decline wasn’t inevitable. It stands as a warning to all Western nations about the speed with which bad (read: leftist) management will destroy a country.

I received an email from a South African friend today, infuriated at his country’s destruction at the hands of his own government’s ideology and incompetence. This was not hyperbole. In fact, the power grid is on the verge of complete collapse, which will leave people without food or water, and, when combined with South Africa’s decay in all other areas, may lead to civil unrest on a scale that could trigger a full civil war.

As a predicate to this post, it’s important to note that, since 1994, when the all-white government finally ended, all South Africa’s presidents have come from the African National Congress, a communist front group. It’s also important to note that South Africa, although in chaotic fashion, has been bowing down before “green colonialism.” As I use it, that phrase means that economically fragile countries destroy their energy infrastructure to suit the climate delusions coming from affluent western nations.

Now, all those communist and “green” chickens are coming home to roost in a terrible way (hat tip: Instapundit):

South Africa is on the verge of “collapse” amid rolling blackouts and warnings a total power grid failure could lead to mass rioting on the scale of a “civil war”.

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national “state of disaster” on February 9 in response to the record electricity shortage, which has seen state-owned power company Eskom institute rolling blackouts – dubbed “load shedding” – lasting up to 12 hours in some cases.

This tweet from Joel Pollak focuses on Cape Town, which is a city that the WEF has commended for going green:

A Twitter thread from @#zombieland, who describes himself as living within South Africa, spells out what happened. It’s long but, if you’re interested, it’s worth reading in its entirety because we in America are going down the same socialist pathway when it comes to handling our human and natural resources.

Our military is becoming a joke. Our weapons supply is swiftly depleted with no apparent replenishment plans. Meanwhile, the troops are being downgraded and demoralized through carefully applied racial and sexual policies.

You’ll recognize in the following thread everything that plagues the United States. We’re just not quite as far down the road yet.

m0nty=fa

If the facts are presented correctly, Chalmers wins this debate hands down.

Bloody big “if”, and the Grattan Institute? LOL.

So why didn’t the ABC seek “a more nuanced analysis” as you put it?
Instead of just waving the pom-poms for jug-ears and trotting out an Emmanomics acolyte?

Generalist reporters who don’t know their subject. Common problem on online news sites.

So how will this affect a couple with a joint SMSF?

Without indexation…what a stupid bloody policy, regardless.

South Africa is in freefall

AWA ; Africa Wins Again.

So it’s looks like the looting of the Treasury and national assets by the ANC and it’s assorted black pals is all but complete. Same script as the rest of the continent Sub-Sahara. The only surprise is it took so long , then again it was a well endowed nation at one point.

Fighting back with their own weapons

F’ing brilliant.

Give all Democrats an ultimatum together 1000 vaccines or lose their jobs too.

Such stupidity in this super change.

The people with massive super accounts would be highly mobile – they could live anywhere they want. Like the Bahamas.

People just on $3 million might stay but the government won’t get much from them anyway.

This will almost certainly lose revenue. At any rate, it certainly won’t yield $2 billion.

Not that such facts will change Monty’s mind. He is scum. He sees successful people and he wants to hurt them.

Poverty, misery, lies and hypocrisy. Those are his 4 life principles.

Beware the Ide of March.

Political instability and damage to infrastructure: How climate change could undermine Australia’s national security (1 Mar)
by Tobias Ide

“For many Australians, the impacts of climate change on well-being are distressingly clear.

The federal government is already concerned about this issue. When coming into office last year, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said “The security implications of climate change are clear and cannot be ignored”.”

Hilarious stuff since global warming isn’t happening. Floods, fires, drought and heatwaves aren’t changing in the real world data, and there’re literally no security implications from all of this. We’ve had three years of record-breakingly cool summers. Ok yes there’re security implications from stupid government policies aimed at combating something that isn’t happening, but since it isn’t happening we shouldn’t be destroying our nation for a myth. But Dr Ide from Murdoch Uni has two PhDs so we’re supposed to listen to his rubbish.

Floods, fires, drought and heatwaves aren’t changing in the real world data

Australian normal.

Lucky we’ve got that poem that documents our pre climate change climate disasters.

Termites have feelings too.

Despite restrictions elsewhere, NZ still uses a wood preservative linked to arsenic pollution (1 Mar)

“Timber with a green-gray hue—treated with copper chromium arsenic (CCA)—is a common sight in New Zealand. But how many people are aware that it pollutes the environment, is associated with health risks and is a toxic waste complicating the transition to a circular bioeconomy?

Other countries, including Australia, the US and the EU, have stopped or restricted the use of CCA, moved to safer alternatives and established viable end-of-life disposal options.
…
But New Zealand’s treated-timber market is still dominated by CCA.”

I didn’t know we banned CCA for termite control. Canberra is mad. We live in a country with more termites by weight than people and they want them to eat us out of house and home? Oh well, the biggest white ants are the ones in Parliament House, so maybe they just feel sorry for their smaller relos.

Iowahawk’s Australian cousin?

It’s been stuffed for years, Makka.

Compared to what it used to be, sure. But it wasn’t too bad for a time compared to the rest of the other SS shitholes. Now it’s fully regressed to it’s natural African state.

at cut rates

I thought it was the floors that were cut?

I didn’t know we banned CCA for termite control. Canberra is mad. We live in a country with more termites by weight than people and they want them to eat us out of house and home?

Plus, don’t termites produce MORE of the most deadly methane than our whole cattle industry?

This will almost certainly lose revenue. At any rate, it certainly won’t yield $2 billion

Laffer strikes again!

Tripadvisor users have voted Cable Beach the best in the South Pacific.

Erm… isn’t it on the Indian Ocean?

ASIO is watching you pee.

That’s an odd thing to say, Bruce, given it is not justified by your linked article which only talks about chemically sampling sewerage in a prototype still being developed and tested in the USA.
So… honestly why did you say that?

“My goal here, my objective here … is to try and make superannuation more sustainable.”

My super is perfectly sustainable. It provides me with a modest income.

Oh. You mean sustainable for pilfering by others.

That type of sustainable.

dover0beach says: March 2, 2023 at 12:42 pm

A perfect illustration that, under liberalism, the child in vitro/ in utero is essentially understood as an object.

Why has our blog convenor adopted the progressive left definition of “object”?

The classic dictionary (eg Oxford) definition of object is “anything that can be seen or touched”. Therefore people are objects. You can see them. You might even touch them when permitted. Objects.
The child is an object in addition to anything else you may say it to be.

Perhaps you mean that the in-utero foetus is not considered to be a person? Since toddlers still haven’t grown into a complete person it should not be surprising that a foetus isn’t one yet either. Youa re also in favour of capital punishment based on the books you promote, so you aren’t opposed to killing persons in general. Your religion blinds you to the reality. However we don’t tolerate cruelty to many species of non-human animals (regardless of whether they qualify as people), so none of these truths are sufficient to justify chopping up a foetus in the womb without anaesthetic and similar horrid procedures.

Kable Beech #2 is in fact the NSW CCA’s stain for the nice wooden bits the beaks fall asleep on.

Colonel

Can fetal yeeting be permitted my brother if one of the yeeted fetes is in fact in 20-30 years time a mega fetal yeeter turbo sloot?

Eight yeetings may prevent a further 28, thereby saving society a net 20 fetal yeetings.

Insh’allah. If potential life is what matters, yeeters can claim all of their children will be worse than Hitler.

So why do they keep on getting pregnant with this in mind? Shouldn’t they yeet…

Dot says: March 2, 2023 at 1:24 pm

a mega fetal yeeter turbo sloot?

Put the shrooms down, Dot. And turn your baseball cap round the right way.

Eight yeetings may prevent a further 28, thereby saving society a net 20 fetal yeetings.

I don’t know what kind of Islaminority Report LARP you’ve got going on there, but the idea that abortion costs society anything other than new people is a bit iffy, and sentencing a foetus to death on a cynical belief about what they might do in 20 years hence is totally out.

Inshallah may your day be good too, I guess??

Jim Chalmers personal pronounces.
Yours/Mine.

I hate lifeboat scenario arguments or whattaboutisms. Also I have sympathy to “the opinion on abortion is made by those who were not aborted”.

You don’t have to see it as demonic although if you believe in demons there’s no reason why it couldn’t be so.

If you believe in demons, you’re every bit as dotty as those who believe a bloke can turn into a woman by wishing it so.

EV DRIVERS ADMIT IT: CHARGING CAN BE A ‘LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE’

Running low on gas? No worries. Find the nearest gas station. Pop the gas cap. Insert the nozzle into the gas tank opening, wait a minute or two and you’re good to go.

The process gets a bit more complicated for drivers of electric vehicles. First they must find a nearby charging station. If they’re lucky, they may be able to find a fast charger where the process might take 30 to 40 minutes. And that’s assuming there is at least one unoccupied parking spot.

Tony Quiroga, editor-in-chief of Car and Driver, tests EVs for a living. ABC News reports he “has been forced to wander the aisles of a Walmart in Burbank, California, while the EV he’s testing that day sits and charges. He’s become a familiar face at a Mexican restaurant in Mohave, California, where a Tesla charger is located. A coffee shop recently opened nearby that caters specifically to EV drivers.”

What a colossal waste of time.

Comparison tests can be a “logistical nightmare,” Quiroga said. “We plan meals around recharging the vehicles. We need to have the battery at 100% or close to it to test a vehicle’s performance. We have to time everything — it requires more work.”

Aside from the high price tags of EV and the inconveniences of charging them, owners are not really doing much to save the environment. They require electricity to run. Lots and lots of electricity, in fact.

And we have General Motors spokeswoman Kristin Zimmerman to thank for letting the cat out of the bag.

During the unveiling of a new Chevy Volt last year, Zimmerman said, “Everybody thought we killed the electric vehicle.” She playfully added, “No, we didn’t. It’s alive and well.”

The smile quickly left her face when a reporter asked what source of electricity was being used to charge the vehicle.

“It’s coming from the building,” she replied.

The reporter clarified, “What’s your mix of power?”

“Lansing feeds power to the building,” she answered, hoping that would end the questioning.

It didn’t.

Stopping herself before uttering the dirty word “coal,” Zimmerman said, “I betcha there’s a bit of co — they’re heavy on natural gas, aren’t they?”

Video of the exchange cuts to J. Peter Lark, an official with the Lansing Board of Power and Light, who set the reporter straight. He told him, “It would be charging off our grid, which is about 95 percent coal.”